Chris Neuroth
Worker-owner at with humans technology cooperative
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolChris Neuroth is a pragmatic software engineer and worker-owner with 14 years of experience building and coaching teams across startups and larger organisations from Munich. He combines hands-on full‑stack work—refactoring legacy codebases, improving test stability and performance—with agile coaching, having served as scrum master and coach while remaining outspoken about inclusive practices. As a freelance developer at polycodal and contributor to projects like rendr (server/client Backbone.js rendering) and Apache Geb, he brings strong test automation and QA skills to improve maintainability and reliability. Comfortable in e‑commerce, insurance and architecture domains, he’s known for safely adding features through disciplined refactoring and for organising community events like SoCraTes. Practical, technical, and community-minded, he pairs deep craftsmanship with a willingness to call out toxicity in tech culture.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Leipzig UniversityBachelor of science, Computer Science, Bachelor of science, Computer Science at Hochschule München
English, German
Stackoverflow
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16answers
20questions
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
webdriver10
github10
selenium10
sinon10
groovy10
testing10
git-repository10
test-framework10
selenium-ide10
chai10
backbonejs10
github-repos10
backbone10
test-automation10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
apache/groovy-geb
Nov 2011 - Jun 2013
Apache Geb: Very Groovy Browser Automation
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the Geb framework. They added tests to verify core functionalities, including module instantiation and download configurations. Furthermore, they made changes to improve the test coverage for Navigator functionality, ensuring the robustness of Geb's element selection and interaction features. The user also contributed to the framework by adding an at checker to test if the page has loaded correctly.
groovybrowserjavascriptautomationjava
rendrjs/rendr
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
Render your Backbone.js apps on the client and the server, using Node.js.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Rendrjs/rendr project. They moved files, fixed tests, and made API changes to align with the client router. Additionally, they refactored error handling and upgraded testing frameworks, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and maintainability. Furthermore, they added unit tests and configuration for Karma to run tests in the browser.
renderbackbonenode-jsjavascriptexpress
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